PokerRoom.com has reentered the online poker market.

Poker players throughout the globe have been waiting in anticipation for the reveal of the website that serves as one of the big comeback stories of 2012. After nearly two years out of the poker scene, the website is back and ready for players to take on the game, make their first deposit and become part of the popular online poker community.

Players can make a deposit at PokerRoom.com of $100, $500 and $1,000 and get one hundred percent deposit bonus. This can increase playing time, and allow the player to get some practise in at real money games without ripping through the online poker account. Players can convert these credits into winnings that can be cashed out of the game on the basis of poker points that are accumulated.  For each eight points that are accumulated through the account, players can clear a percentage of the online deposit bonus.   Points are earned at PokerRoom on the basis of playing in regular cash games, poker tournaments, and you can even earn points by setting up your real money home poker game.

PokerRoom.com is back and ready to offer players the experience that comes with being one of the first online poker websites to offer players real money poker games, as well as the first company to offer players on the Mac computer the chance to download software to play online poker. This expertise and history in the online poker world is going to lead to big things in 2012 for online poker at PokerRoom.com.

Schedules have come out for events this month and next in Oklahoma and Tunica and both have a good mix of games.  If it weren’t for the expense of getting to Oklahoma, I would go out there and play the events.  I’m still toying with Tunica.  I may choose that over Atlantic City.  I haven’t had the best of luck in AC tourneys other than daily’s.  Plus, the Tunica events are cheaper.  The one downside is that the trip is twice as long as the AC trip.  I may just go up to AC and play cash games.  Yes, I’ve probably already said that, but I’m still toying with the idea.  I saw the schedule for the Bike’s Big Poker Ocktober.  I am not impressed.  One Omaha Hi-Lo and one Stud Hi-Lo event, and the rest crapshoot.   I am waiting to see what the Commerce puts out.   Yes, I am contemplating a trip out west.  When?  Who knows.  How am I getting the money?  Who knows.

I wrote an article today on Omaha Hi-Lo.  I thought I would have a hard time coming up with an 1,000 word article introducing the game and providing basic strategy.  I fooled myself.  There is so much involved just educating a player how to play the game properly that I didn’t really get much into starting hand values etc.  I wound up making the article an introduction to Omaha and will have to write a second article on beginner strategy.    Other games, I didnt have to do this as I didn’t have certain aspect of the game to explain.  Works for me tho, more money from the articles.

For those of you asking, no, I haven’t heard anymore from PokerNews about future work.  Others are getting gigs and I am not even getting replies to messages.  Oh well.  It’s always best to go out and find your own clients anyway folks.   I would love to have enough writing and blogging gigs to where I don’t need another job.  I’m working on it.

I truly think that  I am done with the data business for good.  I just don’t have the desire to work it anymore.  The money was good while it lasted but the landscape of the business model changed too much to make my way of doing things profitable anymore.  Change occurs inevitably.  I cannot complain however.  My house is paid for, as well as my car.  Many people twice my age cannot boast that.

I was asked last night if I had been playing any lately.  I wish I could say I felt like it, but I don’t.  Online poker just doesn’t do it for me.  If I am going to play, I want to play live.  Even then, I can only play so much before I am bored with it.  A certain person keeps trying to get me to come play a game locally and at their home game. I just am not interested.  I’ll read about it, write about it, even watch it on TV.  Play?  Nah, don’t feel like it.